Wrick Essman:  

Will. I'm retired from the Army, Post Office and Social Security. I have 5 children, 2 Daughters and 3 Sons. I have 9 grandchildren 5 boys and 4 girls. I am single and enjoying retirement. I was married to Karen Hoover, Class of 1967 Central HS. I am divorced, non-drinker but I'm a smoker. Basically I enjoy my children and grandchildren. I love reading and fishing. After retiring from the Army, I bought a house in Barnhart, MO in 1989 then I sold it in 2006 and moved close to a Daughter in Rockingham, NC I didn't like the Eastern Diamondback Rattle Snakes and the fire ants, so I moved and bought a house in Herculaneum, MO. While in Rockingham, one day. I was BBQ'ing and 2 Cowboys in a pick-em-up truck drove into my driveway and came up asking permission to hunt on my property, I said no way, I have a daughter and grandsons living only 50 yards away. "No Shooting". They laughed and said we catch Diamondbacks alive, no weapons, we always have good luck hunting here. I told them to knock their socks off and if they needed more burlap bags I'll go buy some. I remember more than once, watching my son-in-law and my sons flying around mowing the grass (on riding mowers), I have seen them jump off, running and yelling and brushing themselves off. They had run over Fire Ant Mounds. The mounds are a few feet deep underground and they build them up a foot above ground. They sting badly, it hurts feels like fire. ...Expand for more